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How to Ensure Effective Recruitment and Retention of Millennials Millennials: Are you still wondering what the big deal is about this generation, and why all the hype? Or are you past that but scrambling to find ways to recruit, satisfy, and retain these young workers? Whether or not you want to admit it, millennials are shaping future strategies for companies and recruiters. The numbers are staggering: There are currently 40 million millennials in the workplace. By 2025, 3 out of …

Well it finally happened, SharePoint has a presence in the iOS App Store. It’s the first step in a huge series of changes Microsoft announced back in May to bring their team collaboration and content management software in line with the CEO Satya Nadella’s mobile and cloud first initiatives. In years past if you wanted to easily access a company’s SharePoint environment, it had to be done from a desktop or laptop machine. While Microsoft made some major inroads regarding …

Test Driven Development Overview Test Driven Development is an important concept within the Agile Development methodology. The Test Driven Development methodology dictates that code be written to test the requirements set forth by the customer before the actual code to implement the requirements is written. In other words, the customer asks for feature A, we write code to test that Feature A works as requested. Once we understand exactly what is required for feature A and what the customers’ acceptance …

Docker was introduced to the world at the Python Developer Conference in 2013. Since then, what began with minimal fanfare has grown into a torrent of interest! Every year there is a tidal wave of new products. Docker has risen above the noise and established itself as an important and unique solution. It is redefining modern computing. What is Docker? Docker allows you to bundle an application with all of its dependencies into a single shareable, portable, and transportable unit …

Choosing a project management style that fits I was teaching an IT project management class recently and had a student ask a question I hear all too often: “We’re using waterfall right now but I really want to move towards agile, will we learn about that?” The answer is always, yes, we will cover agile. But the answer to “Should we use an agile style of project management?” is much more complex. Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, seems …